Against Barthes: The Eye and the Index german artist on account of his autism

on account of his autism

and a conversation between the artist and Deborah Willis (Professor at New York University)

The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed

to scenes showing refugees boarding rescue boats off the coast of Libya or gathered along the shores of Turkey under cover of darkness

Against Barthes: The Eye and the Index german artist on account of his autismThe gesture of pointing is the perfect embodiment of photographys function as a visual document: an injunction to look at this. In this textual and visual essay, artist Joan Fontcuberta takes the index finger as his point of departure for an insightful and irreverent consideration of photographys relation to indexicality. He refutes, as well as draws on, Roland Barthess suggestion that every photograph tells us this has been (a a t), reckoning with